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Rh patronage of Erasmus probably procured his head the honour of a place among the Dutch savans, are deserving of peculiar specification. But the most striking portrait is that of Hugo Donellus, which was painted after death. The clay-cold paleness of the countenance, and that expression which the agonies of death have given to the features, are most exquisitely described. It is painted on wood, and in excellent preservation. I am seriously mortified that I could not learn the name of the artist.

There are also in the library, carved in ivory to resemble medallions, the likenesses of some Englishmen distinguished for their attachment to civil and religious liberty, as Wickliff, Harrington, Milton, Marvel, Ludlow, &c. They were executed, I understood, by an English refugee, who took shelter in Holland from the cruelties of James II. after the failure of the Duke of Monmouth's unhappy expedition, in which he bore a share, and continued to reside at Leyden till his death. The carvings